This week’s In Touch has a kind of sad story about the state of Britney Spears’ day to day life. While many of us assumed that Britney’s dad has loosened his tight hold on her now that she’s in a stable relationship and is doing so much better, In Touch says that’s not the case at all. We just heard that Britney’s upcoming tour is banning not only drugs and alcohol for her dancers, but junk food like cookie dough and hot dogs too! Well, according to em>In Touch it goes much further than that. Britney is on a tight budget, she doesn’t have her own credit card or cell phone, and when she’s not with her boyfriend Jason Trawick she’s accompanied by a “sober companion” to babysit her.
Three years after the meltdown that landed her in a mental health facility, Britney lives like a prisoner in her own home, with virtually every aspect of her life under the control of her father/conservator, Jamie Spears.
“She isn’t allowed to have a cell phone, and she’s not allowed to take incoming calls to her home unless security screens them first,” reveals an insider. “If she wants to make outgoing calls, security has to dial the numbers for her. She still has an allowance, and if she wants extra cash, she must submit a formal request…
Allowed contact with few people other than Jamie, her sons Jayden, 4, and Sean, 5, and her boyfriend, talent agent Jason Trawick – with whom she frequently fights – the onetime party girl is “incredibly lonely,” says the insider.
She has no privacy and yet at the same time, she has no time to herself. “Most people don’t know this, but Britney has a sober companion who is with her constantly, whenever Jason isn’t,” shares another close source. “The companion follows her everywhere she goes – even to the bathroom in restaurants or other public places – to ensure there’s no way anyone can slip her drugs.”
[From In Touch, print edition, May 9, 2011]
It sounds pretty extreme, but I still remember that creepers that Britney was involved in before the conservatorship, like Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib. She’s easily influenced. If you’re not familiar with this story about how Lutfi was drugging Britney’s food and controlling her, I would recommend you read it. Back in 2008, this nefarious character was running Britney’s life and she was involved with a paparazzo who was selling her out to the tabloids. When her parents stepped in and got restraining orders against Adnan and Sam, she got secret cell phones and contacted them anyway. We also heard back then that Britney spent $22 million in a year and a half. So while it may seem unfair that she so closely watched and controlled, you can see where her dad is coming from. Remember when she used to drive around aimlessly and talk in a British accent? Now she’s back to being Britney and she can see her boys again, but she needs a lot of supervision.
Britney and Jason are shown watching one of Sean Preston’s little league games on 4/17/11. Credit: Fame. K-Fed’s pregnant girlfriend, Victoria Prince, is shown on 4/17 and 4/30/11. Credit: WENN
i LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that brit-brit has jason. a nice, normal down-to-earth guy. and OLDER too! i always thought an older, more mature dude would be a good influence for her.
good for her. 🙂
This is disturbing. Why would Jason Trawick (or any intelligent mature man) want to be in a relationship with someone like this? Or was I being naive to assume this is a *real* relationship?
Well I’d have more sympathy for her Dad controlling her life if he wasn’t drugging her up and having her perform like a puppet on a stage. If she is this mentally ill she doesn’t need to be lining his pockets. She needs to be spending time with her children and family and getting the help she needs so that she can eventually (if possible) get joint custody of her children with full custodial rights which her father is preventing by remaining her conservator.
That header pic…lofl!
Sad and disturbing.
I take In Touch with a grain of salt. Anytime I’ve read that mag it was all made up stuff or other articles cut and pasted from other mags.
It’s been reported for weeks about her tour re alcohol and drug, and when you are trying to remain sober on tour, it only makes sense. I’m sure Brit has agreed with the hot dogs, etc., as she’s trying to stay fit and healthy on tour.
Re a sober companion, I wouldn’t doubt it as she has issues still, obviously, but I doubt she is under lock and key with no cell phone. Her convervatorship has basically been reduced down to the financial part of it now and she is living life a lot more freely.
And people saying she shouldn’t tour, should be with her kids, blah, blah, she is with her kids all the time, save when her ex has them. Her tour is only so many months out of the year, and the last tour her kids were along a lot of it. Even Kevin came with the kids also for part of the tour. She has been home for years with them, and says she does dance class and working on the albumand such around their schedules. She seems to be in a good place. And working is healthy for you, as a bipolar person said on here, and not staying home all the time.
@Janna I know she spends time with her children my point is she doesn’t have full custodial rights explicitly due to the legal power her father has over her and her finances.
I love her. I think it’s incredibly sad that her mental issues are out in the open for everyone to dissect. Whatever rules she has set for her are for a reason, even though some may sound harsh, no one knows the extent of her problems. She must be sneaky, sneaky for her to not be trusted at her age.
@ Kaye
not all of us are perfect. and i (or you for that matter) may be just as big a f*ck up in real life as britney is. the difference between us & her is that we don’t have our lives under a microscope.
to have someone who loves you for you no matter what that may be is a tremendous blessing and not everyone gets to experience that in their lifetime.
i am a huge f*ckup & i have the most patient, wonderful, hot-stud-of-a-fiancé in the whole goddamn world. every single day i count my blessings cause i am one lucky bitch, i’ll tell ya that! 😉
I know it may seem like she’s her dads money making puppet but she’s been working her entire life, if she were to stop working and just hang out the illness would consume her. Working is healthy, it keeps her fit and distracted. Its what she loves and if my vision becomes reality. This will be her last tour, she’ll move away with her little sister and be off the grid for at least 5 years then a greatist hits album.
Whenever I look at her pics I look at her eyes: they lost the sparkles of life, her eyes are sad and sometimes she looks like out of it. Meds will do that. I think Jason stays because Britney became this docile person. People are making choices for her and she might find comfort in her kids and live whatever the type of live he’s giving her. I get the impression she gave up on something, she lost some control. Unfortunately bi-polarism is associated with depression: up and down mood, when you feel on the verge to lose your mind you want to act out and release the frustration of not being “your normal positive self”. And when your up beat you just see everything like you can knock down every wall. Unfortunately, in order to find a medium between the moods the meds are one of the solution.
I think people took the hot dogs and cookies n cream ice cream and ran with it like maniacs. I’m sure SHE was the one to say to keep that stuff away from her. If I was prepping for a tour, I’d have the people around me keep certain foods away, too. Why have the unnecessary temptation around? It’s not a display of having no self control or of being told what you can and cannot eat. Of course the wording is phrased as it is–it’s a legal document.
I do not believe she has a sober companion, either. Her problem was never drug addiction. It was mental illness. She used drugs for a period of time, but not as an addict does. It was acting out. Sober companions are for people with SERIOUS and (usually) long term drug addictions. She’s surrounded with enough people 24/7 that a sober companion would be pointless.
I don’t know why people believe In Touch, honestly.
Also, there is no such thing as “bipolarism.” It’s bipolar. Period.
“Full custodial right”? I sort of don’t get this-she had joint legal/physical custody. The kids are pretty much with her full time. Conservatorship doesn’t change this.
Actually, I feel sorry for her. Without supervision, she’s a sitting duck for Lufti and his ilk. It isn’t likely that she’s go off to some small town and live in peace with her kids-who by the way should also spend time with their dad.
“i LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that brit-brit has jason. a nice, normal down-to-earth guy. and OLDER too! i always thought an older, more mature dude would be a good influence for her.
good for her. :-)”
Are you serious? If you were “a nice, normal down-to-earth guy. and OLDER…” would you be in relationship with someone who is mental and emotionaly unstable, and who is like a child living under conservator.
I feel sorry for her. I really do. I thing she should retire. She should disapear from public view. It is the best solution for her. But I know that as long as she will be make money is not possible. There’s only one thing – what this situation says about her parents and her fans?
It’s sad what her life has become. Her new music is exactly the same stuff she was singing ten years ago. She doesn’t seem to have control over her life–when she gets to see her boys, her finances, when she can leave her own house…
But honestly without all the security measures in place, I think she would end up going crazy again. Letting bad people into her life that would take advantage of her, driving around aimlessly at all hours of the night, putting her children at risk… it’s horrible, but she has the mentality of a young girl. It’s like she never became an adult. She needs all that constant supervision until she can prove she won’t relapse in her old ways.
Poor dancing bear. I hope they let her take a nice loooong (multi-year) break to really figure things out.
@sapphire here is a copy of the last court papers re custody of her two sons
http://www.radaronline.com/sites/default/files/Britney%20Spears%20MO%206-3-10%20Part%202.pdf
Notice according to those papers the judge met with the conservators of Britney (although I am sure she also talked to the judge). As long as her father is her legal guardian she gets visitation of her children but has no legal rights over them and must pay child support to Kevin as he is their sole legal guardian.
Britney doesn’t look happy. And I don’t buy she is remotely in love with this doofus.
Britney has no options but him.
And I agree that she looks medicated out of her mind. This girl needs some real girl friends. Just to talk to. Who is not making cash off her.
And I still think she ought to pack it in and move back to Louisiana. Hang out with family and try to get her head straight.
I still suspect Britney had a nervous break down. Two babies in two years. A little postpartum depression thrown in the mix. She needed a little quite time away from it all.
But instead she had a loser husband. No real friends. And no one to see she was having a melt down. Then the low life’s showed up to use her.
So her Father enters the picture. Ran off the low life’s. And he got that cash machine drugged up… and kept her churning out albums and tours to support them all.
Yea, none of this is going to end well. Britney needs to take a year off and find a few friends. And maybe a nice man that does not earn a percentage off her work.
Honestly, I think it’s for the best because her biggest problem in life isn’t her mental illness – which is treatable, it’s that she’s straight up genetically stupid. she may have the look of a caged bird but at least she’s alive and able to be there for her kids. I hope for her sake there will always be someone with the legal power to keep her away from bad influences, and that whoever is in charge of her professional life doesn’t renew her contract after this tour. she needs to retire to some god forsaken town and be a regular mom.
I feel for her. I hope this story isn’t true, but Britney herself said she doesn’t own a cell phone in a magazine. So part of it is.
@ Hautie
So her Father enters the picture. Ran off the low life’s. And he got that cash machine drugged up… and kept her churning out albums and tours to support them all.
EXACTLY RIGHT!!!!
Now Britney’s life story is one book I would love to read or see on Lifetime. I think her father is doing a good job, Britney is like a little lost girl who is easily influenced by any goldigger out there. She needs to keep working or otherwise the girl will go crazy.
@ sdf
judgie-wudgie was a bear. 🙁
i love how some people think their shit don’t stink and they have life SOOOO figured out.
fucking hilarious. 😆
*middle finger 4 the posers*
I agree that it’s sad that a grown woman has to be so carefully & totally controlled, for her wellbeing. I’d like to think that her dad genuinely does care, & isn’t just using her out of greed.
I guess it’s hard for me to understand, as it’s weird that she’s being treated like a lost child, even though she’s a mother/girlfriend. It just makes me wonder if she’ll ever improve beyond this point, or if this is how it’s always going to have to be, Emotionally immature, incapable of making her own decisions.
Sorry no sympathy here she’s made millions on no, repeat no real musical ability; that she is the special needs lip syncher of the music industry is a joke, and shows what a joke much of the music industry is – as long as there is money to be made, anyone will be exploited – yah, the entertainment world is really a paragon of virtue; tell me again why these people think they are better than the great unwashed.
There are only two outcomes I can see here. Either Britney will kill herself or find a way to retire and stop being the trained monkey who makes money to support her parasitic entourage. Unfortunately, the first option seems more likely.
I think this is really sad, but even if only a fraction of this story is true, then I am really curious about what is wrong / what really happened to Brit…
The fact that she is still under conservatorship doesn’t bode well at all, I agree that she probably had a real mental breakdown. The girl just seems lost and medicated
I think Jason S is being paid to be Brit’s boyf, as people have commented, why would he date someone so obv incapable of living her own life…
I feel Brit is gone and her life is a big stage production, she has no clue and its really really sad
Obv she must have been pre-disposed to mental health issues but look at the Hollywood effect, its bl*ody scary…why any parent would want their child in Hollywood amazes me…
Kaiser, did you really sum up by saying her prisoner lifestyle is justifiable because she has made bad decisions? If her dad REALLY cared about her welfare she would cease from performing duties at this time and concentrate on getting better and being a mum. The eyes indeed have it. The girl is still not right. This story is heart breaking.
Wow, so many people act like she’s a zombie. What a lark. There’s photos of her at games with her children, flying to different places for vacation, going home to Kentwood with her kids and boyfriend for a visit. I’ve listened to her on several radio interviews and she sounds find and she talked about what she wanted on this new album. She was out at Madonna’s Oscar party. She went to her opening act’s after party the other week. The girl is living life, even if she does have bipolar disorder.
This guy is successful and works. He in no way would be involved with Britney if she acted like a child and/or a zombie. Nobody who is successful would live a life like that with someone.
I would rather see her with a sober coach and under constant supervision that dead. My neighbors daughter seemed to be doing fine last year, till she up and killed herself. Now their family and a 16 year old son are left trying to understand and wishing they had done more.
Oh, yeah, Britney is a real zombie, dead in the eyes, being lead around. (Rolls eyes).
http://perezhilton.com/2011-05-02-britney-spears-spends-the-weekend-with-her-sons
Britney’s ‘fans’ keep saying she’s fine sure she smiles for pictures and goes to baseball games and does radio interviews but she isn’t eveb willing(or able) to have the hard nosed reporter Carson Daly interview her on television and when she performs she’s obviously drugged and lip syncing. There is obviously something wrong. I hope it’s not as bad as some of the extreme posters claim but any logic person can tell there is something not right about this situation and it’s easy to imagine that people who have dollar signs in their eyes would be willing to take advantage of Britney’s condition.
Another day, another sad Brit story.
She is just a slave to the industry, poor girl is going to die young and tragically.
Min, she’s always lip-synched. Nothing new. She’s not drugged. She’s on bipolar medication to even her out. She doesn’t want to be interviewed because she doesn’t want to discuss her personal history, which gets asked. Believe me she would be asked. Look what happened to Chris Brown. If you don’t want to talk about it, don’t do interviews. I don’t blame her. She would be asked about the nervous breakdown period. I am not pretending there is nothing wrong with her. She will probably never be a hundred percent. That’s obvious. But she does seem to be doing way better and capable of living life again and being happy, even while battling the bipolar illness she has. I feel for her. But the posts on here saying she’s lead around by the nose and looks dead in the eyes, a zombie is too far the other way.
Are her great performing days over? Yes. Her dancing sucks. And probably due to her meds and her lack of confidence, she will never be the performer her fans want live again. But they will still flock to her tour, just like Circus, because they adore her. My sister went to Circus and she loved it and said Britney looked amazing and didn’t mind the lipsynching or watered down choreography. I would never go and pay money for that, unless she was doing sommersaults during her routine. LOL But I love Femme Fatale. She did a great job on it and it’s a fun summer album.
@Janna sure she lip synched but she at least could dance the fact that she neither dances nor sings and can’t do even a Carson Daly interview that would be guaranteed to be ass-kissing is really telling/(She could have also done Leno who would have also kissed her ass) . The legal reality that she has no rights over the money she’s earning and lives on an allowance are shameful.
Yawn. She just moved into a 20 million dollar new house in the hidden hills. I doubt she’s begging for any money. The tabloids and this site don’t like the fact that she’s not out doing crazy shit so they try to find issues with the fact that she doesn’t like to go out in public much anymore. Because she’s not seen she’s obviously under lock and key.
The whole cell phone issue has been disproven about a million times. She’s had cell phones in her hands since her dad took control of her life. I don’t believe for a second she even did many of those “interviews” for her promo. She could give a shit about her career.
The link takes to to a single document re continutation of conservatorship. Not one word about the status of legal/physical custody etc. Not saying it’s impossible, but REALLY 7unlikely that juventile proceedings aren’t sealed. In other words, don’t think so.
Am totally bored with this
Brittney is a hostage/victim, kep locked up and drugged.
It’s all for her best, the kids’ best. We’re not really privy to the inner workings of her mind. Just because she releases some lame rehashed music and danceless videos doesn’t mean she’s better. It was really a point of no return when she shaved her head and kept her kids hostage in the closet. Thank good ness no one got hurt. You can’t blame her family at all. I’m sure they love her and are doing their best. Contrast their love and support with the Lohans. End of story.